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I am fascinated by how many people relate to music and songs. My current wife has music on just about 24/7. My Youngest son has his "play list" on his phone and raises Cain if the radio does not have an audio port. I see many on here referring to this or that song.

I rarely have any music on. I usually turn off any radio in what I am driving unless I am listening for the markets. I have several vehicles that do not even have a radio in them. I could not name you ten songs and who played them with a gun to my head.

I am reading a fiction story right now. The fellow is always talking about this song or that song. His story takes place in the years that I would have been in my 20s and 30s. I rarely recognized any of the ones he talks about. I find myself Google searching them just to see if I have heard them. I find that I have heard them but I could not tell you anything about them.

So I am I the only Tone deaf guy out there??? I enjoy thinking about things while I am alone. I often plan things out in my head while doing other work. If I am building something I usually have it 90% worked out in my head before I start.
 
Myself, I am a musician and a music fanatic...but...
When I am working, either in the wood shop or on te tractor...I like silence...
And sometimes I drive with t he radio off..or in my old truck...always with he radio off...sometimes it makes me think too much though...
 
You're not an odd ball. That said I usually have the radio on in the truck as brackground noise, I can't tell what song was just played just that there was something. The shop has no radio just cause I'm too busy. I worked for the Navy for over 30 years and am still working for a contractor to the Navy and I see people with headsets trying to block out the sound of people working or listening to music. To me the sound of people working, even sputtering about something, is great as it means they think what they're doing is important. If anyone is odd it me as sometimes I want background noise and other times silence is fine.
 
You're not alone.

I spend a lot of time on the road, and I rarely even turn the radio up. Sometimes on a long haul, I'll go through a couple of polka CD's.

Even working in my shop, I find music distracting while I'm trying to concentrate on the work at hand.
 
The radio in my pickup is rarely on unless the grandkids are with me and they ask to turn in on. I would much rather have the quiet time to think and relate to things going on in my life.

I do listen to a little talk radio while in my work truck. Keeps me up on the local news and latest scandal; drive by shooting.

I travel out of town about 10 to 15 times a year. I have a few George Strait cd's I listen to for the long drives to break the monotony.
 
Don't feel like the lone ranger. I used to listen to a little music every once in a while but not much any more. I like a little talk radio but that's usually just WMT when I'm riding a few minutes to and from work. I have two early 20's sons that are a little different though. If I ask one to move a car or truck from the shop to the attached garage 30 feet away the radio always ends up on some music station. Or if one rides to town with me and I go into a convenience store for 30 seconds, the station always changes. I've joked with them that the next time the vehicle goes in for service that we are going to half to have the radio checked out because the station keeps changing itself.
 
My truck came with some new-fangled satellite or space-
radio with all kinds of plug'em ins and to this day I couldn't tell ya how to turn it on.....
 
Don"t play the radio much myself anymore. The kind of music I like is not played much, but the commercials, well they get lots of time. Old contry old rock , and bule grass, just don"t sell new cars and fast food I guess. Bruce
 
I like some music, but not so much anything past the 90s. I tune into Pandora, where I can program the music I like. I know the times that I can tune into the markets and weather.

Talking heads radio really turns me off. I don"t need somebody else to tell what or how to think or vote. That is what my brain is for.
 
Used to listen to it in the shop, on the tractor radio, in the truck, but the station was playing real country music. Then suddenly they changed to todays country, listning to that will make you brain dead.
 
Usually only when I am driving.My sons always like to have it on their station when they are with me.Never at work.

Vito
 
I'm with ya'. I hardly ever turn the radio on whether I'm driving down the road or in a tractor or combining. I will turn the radio on in the car/pu if the weather or road conditions are deteriorating. The combine I keep it off so I can listen for anything unusual. I'm glad I'm not alone.
 
I thought I was strange. Quit listening to rock when the Beatles appeared. Quit listening to country when Garth Brooks came out. Don"t listen to music. Do have radio on on at times in truck. NEVER have it on while working and will not hire contractor that does.
 
You're not an odd ball. I never listen to the radio in my vehicles or in the house for that matter. My wife, on the other hand, HAS to have the darn thing on 24-7. I've always said, "I have a "mind", that is what keeps me intertained". My wife and I have had converstions about this subject. She proclaims that there are indeed people who function better with background noise. She's probably right. But I'm not one of those people.
 
I used to listen to music when driving, but it got to where I liked fewer and fewer songs so I simply turned it off. That was probably 10 years ago and I could count the number of times on one hand that I've had it on since. Now depending on my mood I might stick in one of the 8 or so CD's I've got with a group or individual I like, but usually when it's over I turn it right back off.

On the other hand I can't stand working in the shop without the radio on for background noise. I think my thing there is that with working on construction equipment I am so used to having noise around when I'm working that I have a hard time concentrating without the noise. Heck, maybe that's another reason I enjoy the peace and quite when I'm driving.
 
Well, I have a station that plays mostly 50's and early 60's rock which this 65 year old enjoys. Buy I gotta tell ya, when SHMBO and I are on a trip, books on CD's makes the trip seem to go a lot quicker. We'll put in a John Grisham or James Patterson book in the CD player and we can travel 10 to 15 hours without too much fatigue.
 
If somebody else turns the radio on I have to study to figure out how to turn it off, never turn it on. And I do not like a radio or tv on while I am trying to work.
 
feel like the odd man out here. Listen to music every chance I get. If you don"t like the local stations get yourself an Sirius/xm radio, you can find any type of music you can think of. Got a youtube playlist going right now as I"m typing. Bill
 
I most always have a radio on. I ordered satellite radio about 10 years ago. I have a docking station in every vehicle/machine with a radio and one in the kitchen. I only have three radios - I just take them between things.

I used to only listen to music. It was nice, as there were no commercials and I could spend all day in the tractor and never hear a song twice. As I have gotten older I usually have talk radio on. Drives others who ride with me crazy.

I wouldn't be without those satellites, although I wish they had the markets on there. They probably do I just don't know where. I tune into local voices for that.
 
Music will sooth the savage beast. I have a satellite radio that comes on with the shop lights. Bluegrass music only. Volume down low. I won't listen to local broadcast radio - can't stand the chatter and don't like the "music" they play, and I have a hard time thinking of anything I hate worse than talk radio. I NEVER turn the car or truck radio on, unless it's a long trip and I've brought the satellite with me.
 
my tractor even has a radio that came with it. Had it on once to see if it worked. Wife likes 'em but I hardy ever play one unless some emergency is happening.
 
My wife and I also really enjoy audio books when we are traveling long distances. She usually picks them out, so often they are chick stories, but they sure do make the distances seem shorter.

I don"t really need to have a radio on, since I have music playing in my head all the time, which I usually appreciate. The play list is all sorts of things, from heavy classical music to rock and roll. I never know just what will play next! The only times I don"t like this internal radio is when it gets stuck on one song, which it occasionally does. Hard to move on and I can"t turn it off. But most of the time I really enjoy the songs. Marty Robbins "El Paso" is on this minute. Good song!

By the way, my internal music system NEVER has any rap and very little recent "music", since I tend to avoid having to listen to much of either.

Am I an oddball? Probably, and glad to be one!
 
"I see the white puff of smoke from his rifle, I feel the bullet go deep in my chest".
I would be hard pressed to think of a song I would rather have stuck in my head. Truly one of my top 5 songs...ever.
 
In my garage where I work on garden tractors I have a computer for a radio, no static. In the morning til 3pm, I listen to talk radio then switch over to country and western. til I go in the house. When I worked for the H.K.C. in Wi, I liked to listen to C&W from Rice Lake when I was on the west side of his land and whatever C&W I could get when on the east end. Fill the fuel tank in the morning, turn on the heater and radio and Plough all day long listing to the radio. Never see anyone all day long except the guy in the other plowing tractor.
 
BTW, I was up in your neck of the woods two weeks ago..Silverwood theme park and Long Lake in 9 mile falls, outside of Spokane.
 
I used to never have one on. Now I like one for background noise, and if someone comes in and catches me mumbling to myself they can"t hear it so easily lol. I like the country/western, but change it up every few days/weeks just to keep from getting sick of the same 10 songs.
 
I like to listen to the machinery and my tractors don't have radios anyway. I used to like country music, but the new stuff doesn't fit my taste so I listen to oldies country maybe once a week. I'm with you, I spend my drive time in quiet thinking most of the time. My wife has music on all the time, she has praise music playing in the kitchen right now.
 
Whoa, you guys have the terminology all wrong! Don't you know it's a SOUND SYSTEM today, not a radio. It's a sound system! Radios went the way of the dinasaurs. That said, I have a RADIO in every vehicle and it's usually on whenever I'm in that vehicle. I can't tell you what was on it unless it's a PBS station. My son acts like I'm an old fuddy-duddy because I don't know how to get songs on my smart phone so I can dock it to the 'sound system'. Speaking of my son, when he's on the road he listens to books on his cell phone through his blue tooth. One of them is the bible and he doesn't go to church much. Jim
 
I used to like music, but as I get older I appreciate silence or thoughtful discussions.
(not the radio ranters or the religious zealots)
The Wife and I have relatively new vehicles. All came with a period of free satellite radio. Neither of us ever turned it on, even during the free period. We often get letters asking us to try it again for free.

No thanks.

NPR gets about 75% of my radio time.
 
Silverwood is neat! My grandkids enjoy going there, but I get motion sickness too easily to do much roller coastering.

Long Lake is actually just part of the Spokane River, impounded behind the Nine Mile Dam. It is nice to have a lake that close to the City of Spokane and lots of people use it in the Summer.

Hope you enjoyed our area!
 
I just dumped my satellite radio after 9 years.
When I first subscribed it was completely music, then after some years they added DJ's to most of the channels. If I could tolerate that I would have stayed with FM.
I'm going to miss the Elvis channel, but not much else.
 
(quoted from post at 15:22:03 08/25/13) I am fascinated by how many people relate to music and songs. My current wife has music on just about 24/7. My Youngest son has his "play list" on his phone and raises Cain if the radio does not have an audio port. I see many on here referring to this or that song.

I rarely have any music on. I usually turn off any radio in what I am driving unless I am listening for the markets. I have several vehicles that do not even have a radio in them. I could not name you ten songs and who played them with a gun to my head.

I am reading a fiction story right now. The fellow is always talking about this song or that song. His story takes place in the years that I would have been in my 20s and 30s. I rarely recognized any of the ones he talks about. I find myself Google searching them just to see if I have heard them. I find that I have heard them but I could not tell you anything about them.

So I am I the only Tone deaf guy out there??? I enjoy thinking about things while I am alone. I often plan things out in my head while doing other work. If I am building something I usually have it 90% worked out in my head before I start.
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ou're not alone, i'm much the same,..must be the age :wink:
 
When I was a kid hanging around my family's garage, my grand-dad used to keep a radio going all the time. Some folks thought it was for the music, but grand-dad wasn't much of a music fan. He just didn't want to miss the NBC News On The Hour.

One day, back in the early 1960's, we all--including a couple of customers--stopped to listen to the news, and there was a mention of Viet Nam [it was TWO words back then] and "guerrilla warfare." After the news, one of the farmers, who wasn't exactly the sharpest pencil in the box, turned to my grand-dad and asked him: "Newt, how do you reckon they teach them monkeys to fight like that?"
 
JD, nope, yer the type that gives odd balls a bad name :shock: ! I can take it or leave it. Seldom have music on in the car or while running equipment but I do love music. My 4 tractors don't even have radios.

Rick
 
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